(Because every ball counts, just like in cricket)

Last Updated: March 15, 2025

Progress Tracker

47% (21/45)
✓ Completed: 9 ⚡ In Progress: 12 ◯ Remaining: 24
  • Full Toss 🎾 - just need to step up and hit!
  • Yorker 🎳 - requiring precise execution and effort
  • Googly 🌀 - need careful setup and persistence
  • Hattrick ⚡ - once in a while, when stars and execution aligns
  1. ✗ Become the first author of a paper at a top-tier conference 🎳
  2. ✗ Start my own company 🌀
  3. ✗ Make a discovery or invention or author an US-patent ⚡
  4. ✗ Build a product used by 10+ million people 🎳

  5. ✗ Give a TED talk - TEDx doesnt count 🎾

  6. ✗ Write a book and get it published 🎳
  7. ✗ Be in a movie/commercial 🌀

  8. ✓ Learn to play the a music instrument

  9. ✗ Read 1000 books (~30% done) 🎳
  10. ✗ Learn to code in 5 programming languages - intermediate level 🎾 (~80% done)
  11. ✓ Master photography and photoshop

  12. ✓ Learn to cook 50 dishes that i like

  13. ✗ Live in another country (min. 6 months)
  14. ✗ Visit all continents 🎳
  15. ✗ Bike trip of Leh & Ladakh 🎾

  16. ✗ Go on a solo backpacking trip 🎾

  17. ✓ Start / Help a nonprofit organization focused on education (2019)
  18. ✗ Actually Fall in love ⚡

  19. ✓ Build and Design my own dream home 🎳

  20. ✗ Watch IPL Final Live 🎳
  21. ✗ Watch Boxing test day-1 live 🎾
  22. ✗ Watch a Test match (any day) at Lords 🎾
  23. ✗ Meet one of Sachin - Virat - Dhoni - Yuvraj 🌀
  24. ✗ Work with any IPL team/Ranji team/ICT as an analyst ⚡

  25. ✗ Write few blogs about cricket analytics 🎾

  26. ✗ Achieve financial independence 🎳
  27. ✗ Create a passive income stream 🎾

  28. ✗ Own property in atleast two cities ⚡

  29. ✓ Go paragliging
  30. ✗ Go skydiving 🌀

  31. ✗ Drive a rally or f1 level car ⚡

  32. ✗ Practice yoga for 75 consecutive days 🎳
  33. ✗ Complete a 10-day vipasna retreat 🌀

  34. ✗ Learn some form of self defence - boxing/karate/jiu-jitsu 🎾

  35. ✓ Take a university course in philosophy
  36. ✓ Study quantum physics

  37. ✗ Learn to play chess at an intermediate level 🎾

  38. ✗ Create a free online course that helps people improve their lives in some aspect 🎾
  39. ✗ Watch atleast 10 different sports in different stadiums worldwide 🎳

  40. ✓ Learn a traditional dance form

  41. ✗ Write my autobiography 🌀
  42. ✗ Travel 25 different countries 🎳

  43. ✗ Take my parents on their dream vacation 🎾

  44. ✗ Witness a historic world event 🌀
  45. ✗ Change someone’s life for the better 🎾

Future Dreams

[46-99] This list is intentionally incomplete. The journey of collecting these dreams is as important as achieving them…

The Final Goal

100. ✗ Die with no regrets 🌀

Reflections so far

What began as a simple bucket list has evolved into something far more meaningful—a living document of aspirations and growth. Each completed goal has taught me that the real treasure lies in the journey: the late-night preparations, the occasional setbacks, and the unexpected victories.

“The beauty of any pursuit isn’t in the destination, but in showing up every day with the courage to try.”

Inspired by: chip huyen’s blog